Troilus and Oedipus: The Genealogy of an Image

Author / Editor
Ebel, Julia.

Title
Troilus and Oedipus: The Genealogy of an Image

Published
English Studies 55 (1974): 15-21.

Description
Attributes the metaphors of blindness and light in TC to the direct influence of Statius's "Thebaid" (unmediated by the "Roman de TheĢbes"), suggesting that the pattern of imagery culminates in Troilus's comparison of himself to Oedipus (TC 4.300).

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
Style and Versification